DARK DEAL Review: Braden D. White Leads Another Median Work-In-Progress Indie Action Effort
The film stars Braden D. White, Rodney Smith, Mattea White and Carl Rhonin.
The film stars Braden D. White, Rodney Smith, Mattea White and Carl Rhonin.
Earlier this week I was sent an announcement pertaining to the forthcoming fifth installment of the Nemesis franchise – a film that probably nobody really asked for. It’s a reasonable conclusion considering that out a handful, not even the most involved fan of 90s action cinema heard of the sequels that followed Oliver Grunner’s stellar 1992 original. Poor marketing perhaps. Another reason could be due to just how much of a dodgy, less than impressive mess the production knew this was going to be. Nevertheless, we now get to sample that very mess in the most recent trailer – and not that it’s any better from the initial trailer that went live last December. Horror director Dustin Ferguson makes his segue into cyberpunk sci-fi territory with actress Schuylar Craig starring as a new model trained under franchise protagonist Alex Rain to defend the remnants of humanity from a terrorist organization […]
The 1990s is a treasure trove of action titles that have stood the test of time. Multi award-winning producer and director Albert Pyun’s 1992 cyberpunk spectacle, Nemesis, is certainly a high mark for anyone who has followed the direct-to-video action genre with a proliferated use of a VHS player in the last three decades. Host to a dark, dystopian tale of survival the original casts actor and martial artist Olivier Grunner in the role of an LAPD hitman named Alex Raine who finds himself fighting for his own humanity. Actress and bodybuilder succeeded the franchise in Nemesis 2: Nebula, taking on a gender-bending version of the same role with a story set 73 years later when cyborgs have dominated mankind; Price continued onward for the franchise through 1996. Pyun had still been directing thereafter but ultimately took a turn toward retirement due to health conditions surrounding dementia prior to finishing […]